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Plane overshoots Jamaica runway; dozens hurt (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:41 PM PST

File -- An April 13, 2009 file photo shows an American Airlines Boeing 737-800 parked at a gate at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in Grapevine, Texas. An American Airlines spokesman says a flight using a 737-800 from Miami has overshot the runway in Kingston, Jamaica,Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009. An American Airlines spokesman says the flight normally carries 140 passengers plus the crew. (AP Photo/Donna McWilliam/file)AP - An American Airlines flight from Miami Tuesday night overshot a runway during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston, injuring dozens of people, officials said. There were no reports of fatalities.

Teresa Heinz says she's fighting breast cancer (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 10:11 PM PST

AP - Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the tests despite a federal panel's recent recommendation to reduce their frequency.

Brazil: Boy ordered returned to US dad's custody (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 07:51 PM PST

David Goldman, of New Jersey, gestures before speaking to the press in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Late Sunday Brazil's Supreme Court said in an Internet statement that Chief Justice Gilmar Mendes would rule Monday on appeals made by Goldman and Brazil's attorney general seeking to lift a stay on a lower court's order that Goldman's son be handed over to him. Goldman's son Sean was taken to Brazil in 2004 by his then-wife Bruna Bianchi, who divorced Goldman and remarried before dying while giving birth to a daughter in 2008. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Brazil's chief justice ruled in favor of a U.S. man who has waged a five-year legal battle for his son, ordering Brazilian relatives on Tuesday to turn over the 9-year-old boy.

NYC victim's mom: EMTs were 'inhuman' not to help (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:59 PM PST

A patron wearing an 'FDNY EMT' jacket enters the Au Bon Pain shop in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009. Two emergency medical technicians accused of refusing to help a dying pregnant woman are 'inhuman' and shouldn't have taken those jobs if they weren't willing to get involved, the woman's mother said Tuesday. Eutisha Revee Rennix, 25, died at a hospital Dec. 9, shortly after collapsing in the Au Bon Pain outlet in Brooklyn where she worked. Her baby was too premature to survive. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Two EMTs on a coffee break who failed to help a dying pregnant woman acted "to the best of their abilities," their lawyer said Tuesday, while the woman's mother condemned them as "inhuman."

Feds address concerns about safety of Ill. prison (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 08:48 PM PST

Protesters gather outside a Illinois legislative hearing Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009 in Sterling, Ill. regarding an Obama administration decision to buy the underused Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Ill. to house up to 100 Guantanamo Bay detainees. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Federal officials tried on Tuesday to allay fears that moving terror suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a rural western Illinois prison could make the state a terrorist target.

AP Enterprise: Feds mull regulating drugs in water (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:14 PM PST

FILE - In this March 13, 2009 file photo, Steve Zaugg, a chemist at the National Water Quality Laboratory in the west Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colo., holds a tray of samples of wastewater from a U.S. Geological Survey study that looks at discharges from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants as he loads a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry machine. Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some of the contaminants while acknowledging they could threaten human health. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)AP - Federal regulators under President Barack Obama have sharply shifted course on long-standing policy toward pharmaceutical residues in the nation's drinking water, taking a critical first step toward regulating some of the contaminants while acknowledging they could threaten human health.

3 dead as dust storm, snow blast Arizona (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 07:33 PM PST

A multiple-vehicle collision caused by blowing dust is seen Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009 on Interstate 10 in Casa Grande, Ariz. sudden dust storm has spawned 20 or more collisions Tuesday on Interstate 10 in central Arizona, with several vehicles catching fire. (AP Photo/Casa Grande Dispatch, Steven King)AP - A strong winter storm wreaked havoc in Arizona on Tuesday, leaving at least three people dead and six injured in a series of fiery crashes caused by thick, blowing dust on Interstate 10 and shutting down I-40 for hours with slick conditions. One of the dead was a 25-year-old man whose vehicle was rear-ended by his father's truck.

Top SC prosecutor, others probing health care deal (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 06:08 PM PST

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb. talks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, following a series of votes. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - The top prosecutors in seven states are probing the constitutionality of a political deal that cut a funding break for Nebraska in order to pass a federal health care reform bill, South Carolina's attorney general said Tuesday.

Terrorist attack feared after Jackson arrest (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 07:46 PM PST

File-In this Feb.,2005 file photo showing Michael Jackson arriving for the first day of his child molestation trial at the Santa Barbara County Superior Court in Santa Maria, Calif. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant,File)AP - Police concerns that media-hungry terrorists would attack Michael Jackson's trial as a "soft target" led to a request for federal help, according to FBI files kept on the late pop star. The documents also show that the FBI helped facilitate interviews in the Philippines by California authorities investigating Jackson over allegations that he had sexually abused boys.

No longer coy, Giuliani won't run for NY office (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 06:25 PM PST

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, right, answers questions from the media after announcing that he won't run for New York governor but endorsing Republican Rick Lazio., left, during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)AP - After months of playing it coy and flirting with a bid for statewide office, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that he won't return to the campaign trail next year, leaving a wide-open field for New York Republicans interested in the gubernatorial and Senate races.

Holiday storm could snarl travel in West, Midwest (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 05:44 PM PST

A multiple-vehicle collision caused by blowing dust is seen Tuesday Dec. 22, 2009 on Interstate 10 near Kortsen Road in Casa Grande, Ariz. sudden dust storm has spawned 20 or more collisions Tuesday on Interstate 10 in central Arizona, with several vehicles catching fire. (AP Photo/Casa Grande Dispatch, Steven King)AP - Holiday travelers scrambled to adjust their plans Tuesday as a fast-moving snowstorm threatened to bring long delays along with a white Christmas for millions of people throughout the West and Midwest.

Brittany Murphy had several movies in the works (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 06:26 PM PST

This photo provided by Hybrid Productions shows Brittany Murphy and Peter Bogdanovich on the set of 'Abandoned' in Los Angeles in June 2009. The film is Murphy's final starring role before her recent death. The film is expected to be released in 2010. (AP Photo/Hybrid Productions) NO SALESAP - Brittany Murphy was a hardworking actress who was juggling multiple movie projects in the months leading up to her unexpected death.

Flight misses Jamaica runway; no injuries reported (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 09:25 PM PST

The tail of an American Airlines jet. The US Justice Department said Tuesday an airline tie-up involving British Airways and American Airlines, among others, would lead to AP - An American Airlines spokesman says a flight from Miami has overshot the runway in Kingston, Jamaica, but came to a safe stop. He says there are no reports of injuries or fatalities.

Del. police: Pediatrician sexually abused patients (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 06:06 PM PST

AP - A Delaware pediatrician is accused of molesting at least 16 patients, including some who appear to be no more than 6 months old, and police said the doctor used video cameras to record some of the brutal attacks in exam rooms.

Feds listened to Blago brother's calls with wife (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:01 PM PST

FILE - This April 21, 2009, file photo shows ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich waving as he leaves federal court in Chicago after a hearing on his racketeering case. Blagojevich attorney Samuel E. Adam after a hearing Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009, in Chicago said questioning President Barack Obama as a witness in the corruption case would be an 'awesome' experience, but he doesn't know if it would be necessary or even possible. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)AP - An attorney told the judge in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption case Tuesday that FBI agents improperly recorded 208 phone conversations between the former governor's brother and his wife, some "of the most intimate nature."

SCLC leadership removed amid mismanagement claims (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:32 PM PST

AP - As the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. prepares to take the helm of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization co-founded by her famous father is embroiled in an internal investigation that is distracting leaders from the group's mission.

Nasal swine flu vaccine recalled over potency (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 04:14 PM PST

Kareena Kapoor and Aamir Khan promote their movie '3 Idiots' in Mumbai in November 2009. Bollywood is looking to Aamir Khan to bring festive cheer to the industry after a disappointing 2009 hit by a producers' strike, swine flu fears and a lack of box office success.(AFP/File)AP - Drugmaker MedImmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of swine flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time, federal health officials announced Tuesday.

Fla. teen set on fire released from hospital (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 03:02 PM PST

AP - A hospital official says a teen who was doused with rubbing alcohol and set on fire by a group of other teens has left the Miami hospital where he was being treated.

Judge orders new trial in Chicago patronage case (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 02:54 PM PST

AP - A federal judge threw out the fraud conviction of Chicago's former streets and sanitation commissioner Tuesday and granted him a new trial on charges of illegally rewarding political campaign workers with city jobs.

Police say shooter targeting moving cars in Ohio (AP)

Posted: 22 Dec 2009 01:54 PM PST

AP - A gunman appears to be targeting moving vehicles in a small patch of suburban Cleveland, hitting at least four cars in three shootings since mid-August, police said Tuesday. No one has been hurt.
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